NoWaste tracks the pantry. Well Stockd turns it into dinner.
NoWaste is a food inventory app, $6.99 a year or $29.99 for a lifetime unlock, free up to 6 lists and 500 items. It is the closest of these to what Well Stockd does on the inventory side. The difference is what happens after the list exists.
What you keep
- The inventory itself, with quantities and expiry dates, and the warning before something goes off.
- No item cap. The free tier here does not stop at 500.
- A shopping list that comes out of the inventory rather than memory.
- About 3,950 meal-kit-style recipes attached to that inventory, which is the half NoWaste leaves to you.
What it costs
| NoWaste | Well Stockd | |
|---|---|---|
| Price, September 2026 | NoWaste Pro is $6.99 a year, or $29.99 as a lifetime unlock. | Free forever for the cooking loop. Pro is $4.99 a month or $39 a year, which is two months free. |
| Free tier | Six lists and 500 items. Pro lifts the cap to 5,000. | Inventory with expiry tracking, the full catalog, can-make matching, the shopping list, the Walmart cart and cook mode. Two lists and five of your own recipes. |
| Ads | None. The Play listing carries no ads badge. | None. The app carries no advertising. |
| What matters | NoWaste | Well Stockd |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Alive and actively updated, with releases in August 2026 on both stores. | Live. The kitchen loop is the whole product rather than a side feature. |
| How it is rated | 4.2 from 751 ratings on the App Store, and 2.8 from 274 on Google Play. That is an unusually wide split for one app. | Live. The kitchen loop is the whole product rather than a side feature. |
| Pantry and fridge inventory | Its core feature, and the reason people use it. | Full fridge, freezer and pantry inventory with expiry dates and freshness-aware sorting. |
| Getting your data out | No export, backup or CSV is documented on either store listing or on the NoWaste site. | Your own recipes and lists sit in your account for as long as the account exists. |
| Recipe catalog | Not part of what NoWaste is for, so no claim is made here. | About 3,950 meal-kit-style recipes, matched live against what you actually have in. |
| Meal planning | Not part of what NoWaste is for, so no claim is made here. | Weekly planner that pulls from your inventory and builds the shopping gap list. Pro. |
What you gain
- An inventory. Your fridge, freezer and pantry, with quantities, in one place.
- Expiry dates. The app warns you before something goes off and sorts the oldest to the top. Free on every account.
- Can-make matching. Every recipe says whether you can cook it tonight with what you already have.
- A shopping list that is a gap list. It holds what you do not already own, and one tap sends it to a Walmart cart. Any store works.
- Household sync. One shared kitchen, so nobody comes home with the second bag of rice.
The honest trade-off
What you may miss: NoWaste has a lifetime unlock at $29.99 and Well Stockd does not sell one. If you want to pay once for an inventory and nothing more, that is a fair trade and this page will not talk you out of it.
When you should stay with NoWaste
A comparison page that cannot name a reason to pick the other product is an advert. These are the cases where NoWaste is the better call:
- You want an inventory and nothing else, paid for once.
- You already have a recipe app you like and do not want the two joined up.
How to move off NoWaste
- There is no export documented, so photograph or write down the shelves you have already catalogued before you stop.
- Re-stock here by voice instead of typing. Reading the shelves out loud is about fifteen minutes for a normal fridge and pantry.
- Put the perishables in first. The expiry warnings and the freshness sorting only pay off once the fridge is in.
- Open the catalog once the fridge is in, and see what the same inventory can cook tonight.
- Create a free account. Confirm your email and 7 days of full Pro start, with no card.
- In Settings, open “Refer friends & earn Pro,” choose NoWaste, and claim your one-time switch offer of 3 free months.
The offer
NoWaste switchers get 3 free months of Well Stockd Pro: the planner, household sync, the hands-free cook assistant, custom substitutions and unlimited lists and recipes. It is one claim per account, in Settings, through the founding window. After that, Pro is $4.99 a month or $39 a year. The cooking loop stays free either way.
Common questions
How much does NoWaste cost?
As of September 2026, NoWaste Pro is $6.99 a year or $29.99 for a lifetime unlock. The free tier holds six lists and 500 items.
Can I export my NoWaste inventory?
No export, backup or CSV is documented on either store listing or on the NoWaste site, so plan on photographing your shelves rather than moving a file.
What does Well Stockd add over a pantry tracker?
The half after the list. About 3,950 recipes matched live against what you have, a weekly planner on Pro, a shopping gap list and a one-tap Walmart cart.